Every humiliated traveller and every bit of TSA malfeasance is a win for Bin Laden et al. Even the continued existence to the Patriot Act and Homeland Security is a win for them and their statist allies, because there've been no nascent plots uncovered, no convictions. All of those resources squandered... for what?
TSA, HS and PA are very expensive, useless, and undemocratic projects, reminders of unfreedom.
"No one opens bags to check the contents"
Oh yes they do. That's the job of the trash inspectors who go round, to shops in the first instance, and a sampling of residential properties. The domestic inspections reveal instances of people trying to put out their rubbish as recyclables. I don't like the idea or practice of having people look at my rubbish any more than I like the idea of potty inspections, but I also don't put rubbish in the recycling bags. And therein lies the real issue. I know it's not strictly a British thing, but people in the UK go to silly extremes to *avoid* putting rubbish in the bins and bags provided. They'd sooner drop it on the streets, in the parks, along riverbanks and railways. They'll even take in on a bus or train and leave it there. So it's no surprise that trash inspectors are now roaming the streets. If Brits decided to take themselves seriously there'd be no call for this sort of thing, and the nanny state would have to find some other way of acting out its fantasies. Instead what we have is a nation of immature and irresponsible litterbugs. I guess maybe Arlo Guthrie would be proud. Or not.
Yeah. So why has it that nobody prior, including the OP, seems to have noticed? Do you think that means we should alert the world that Microsoft is about to release something called Windows 95?
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What, Britain has its own rural Deep South? Is that the people with red tailcoats and hounds?
Every humiliated traveller and every bit of TSA malfeasance is a win for Bin Laden et al. Even the continued existence to the Patriot Act and Homeland Security is a win for them and their statist allies, because there've been no nascent plots uncovered, no convictions. All of those resources squandered... for what? TSA, HS and PA are very expensive, useless, and undemocratic projects, reminders of unfreedom.
"No one opens bags to check the contents" Oh yes they do. That's the job of the trash inspectors who go round, to shops in the first instance, and a sampling of residential properties. The domestic inspections reveal instances of people trying to put out their rubbish as recyclables. I don't like the idea or practice of having people look at my rubbish any more than I like the idea of potty inspections, but I also don't put rubbish in the recycling bags. And therein lies the real issue. I know it's not strictly a British thing, but people in the UK go to silly extremes to *avoid* putting rubbish in the bins and bags provided. They'd sooner drop it on the streets, in the parks, along riverbanks and railways. They'll even take in on a bus or train and leave it there. So it's no surprise that trash inspectors are now roaming the streets. If Brits decided to take themselves seriously there'd be no call for this sort of thing, and the nanny state would have to find some other way of acting out its fantasies. Instead what we have is a nation of immature and irresponsible litterbugs. I guess maybe Arlo Guthrie would be proud. Or not.
You can get anything you want at Alice's restaurant.
Yeah. So why has it that nobody prior, including the OP, seems to have noticed? Do you think that means we should alert the world that Microsoft is about to release something called Windows 95?
None of this would have happened if we'd voted McGovern in '72. It's all that Nixon's fault.